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About Phyllis Thaxter
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Thaxter
Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012) was an American actress.
Career
She had frequently worked on Broadway since 1940. When Dorothy McGuire went to Hollywood, Phyllis replaced her in the play Claudia. In 1944, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her movie debut was opposite Van Johnson in the wartime film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Thaxter played Joan Alris Ellis, a woman suffering from split personality in the film-noir Bewitched in 1945. In 1948, she played a cattle owner’s daughter alongside Barbara Bel Geddes in Blood on the Moon.
At MGM, she routinely portrayed the ever-patient wife to a number of leading men. She moved to Warner Brothers in the 1950s, but usually played the same type of roles.
Thaxter’s career stalled after an attack of polio in 1952. She made a comeback in such television series as Rawhide wherein 1961, she portrayed Pauline Cushman in the episode "The Blue Spy", Wagon Train ("The Christine Elliott Story"), The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1978, Thaxter was cast, along with Glenn Ford, as Jonathan and Martha Kent in Superman.
Partial filmography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Thaxter#Partial_filmography
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Phyllis Thaxter's Timeline
| 1919 |
November 20, 1919
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Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
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| 1945 |
December 21, 1945
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| 2012 |
August 14, 2012
Age 92
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Longwood, Seminole County, Florida, United States
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cremated, ashes scattered at sea
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